prohibition meaning and definition

PROHIBITION noun

Definition of prohibition (noun)

1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
   • "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
2. a decree that prohibits something
   • synonyms: ban, proscription
3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
   • synonyms: prohibition era
4. refusal to approve or assent to
5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
   • "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
   • synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition